I’ve never commented on any of the RUclips Chanel’s I’ve followed.. but you two are such genuinely interesting, intelligent and such nice, good people. Love your vision, personalities and all you are doing. I hope you can continue to generously share your journey when you can.
Oh my❣️ ...Clement running down the forest path with his basket and wearing his little red boots....a sight a Mother wants to register forever in her heart...too adorable for words...A tisket, a tasket....:)))
I can’t think of a more indelicate childhood…both parents working from home, plenty of time outdoors to learn and explore, animals, wonderful food, history and humour. Thank you for all that you share!💗
Hugely behind with watching (young children/running own business from home etc), I think this is one of my absolute favourite vlogs Amy. The mixture of family, home life, renovation and humour was perfect, and my 13 mo has also enjoyed it. p.s. your dress is amazing x
Hello Marc, Amy, Clement and Juliet. In am late to the party but am very excited to see you all. Amy and Clement walking in the woods looked like an idyllic film to promote the countryside! You looked beautiful in your lovely dress Amy I really enjoyed your making the Rum Top , so gorgeous with the sun shining, chickens and foliage. Congratulations Marc on your super-perfect pannelling, wow it looks amazing. All so fabulous and exciting. Xxxx🤗😊😗
As always i love whatever you post. That rum pot was a beautiful stoneware/ ceramic vessel. The children are such sweethearts. Little Clement in his red boots was totally handsome. And Juliette is so pretty. Loved seeing all the animals and the glorious flowers and natural surroundings as you made the rum pot recipe. Hope the kiddos agree to letting you get on with the plastering next week, 😉😆. Stay well, God bless.
So lovely to see you and your lovely family again. Marc is doing a really great job on the pine panels in the coach house....it is really coming along! You look absolutely beautiful and cool in your dress....so pretty and what a great idea making the rum outside with the beautiful flowers around you. The dog with the chickens are just perfect too! Love seeing the children and Clement is having a great time walking with you collecting the fruit. I love his little red boots. Thanks again!!
I've just subscribed, but have been following you journey and all your hard work. Love your opening done in black and white. Good to see your son banging the piano. Thank You for sharing this with us.
The coach house is going to look fabulous. I can hardly wait to see the completed project. With 2 little ones, it is so impressive you are accomplishing so much! Bravo!
Fantastic and informative vlog today. Thanks for sharing. Amy, I loved your red and white dress and when you turned around with the pot, your hairstyle was beautiful. Marc, you are very talented.
Your beverage "Rumtopf" sounds really delicious! I love learning new things from other continents. The work on the carriage house looks very nice and friendly. Regarding the paneling, you can distress it to make it look old. Use a wire brush on it, put a few dents in it with a hammer, dust it with fireplace soot and then, stain it a light color wood stain. After it dries, stain it with a darker gel wood stain and immediately, rub is off.
I am enjoying catching up on old videos. I have always known the "Rumtopf" as Confiture de Gendarmes and it was done in a very large glass jar so the different fruit could be seen. We ate it at the Christmas reveillon.
Amy, I couldn't stoplaughing when you did your little song. Believe it or not I had to do that "Tea Pot" song when I was in 3rd grade of grammar school. By the way. I am now 76 years old and I just taught it to my 6 year old granddaughter. What fun. Love watching you and Marc in these vlogs. Can't wait for the next one. See you then.
Enjoyed learning of the rum pot, How nice, I like rum. The woodwork is beautiful, Great job Marc. How sweet was mother and son with their baskets to gather fruit, Loved it. I love your bloopers! Enjoyed today's vlog as always. God bless you all.
I wonder about using cherry with pits , since they have cyanide which is really toxic to adults but especially so to little ones. Pretty much every recipe I’ve ever seen says to pit the cherries first. I don’t know , I’m no expert, but it might be good to try and find out if it’s ok? The rum pot sounds like a yummy thing to make, I can imagine it served over a cake or ice cream at Christmas would be so good. 😋. 🙋🏼♀️ When I get all steamed up hear me shout tip me over and pour me out is what we always sang to the teapot song. I should probably check that out though. 😂🤣
If you are looking for a more modern look, painting the panels a deep blue or green would fit in with the beautiful stone wall opposite. Marc is very clever
Your babies are absolutely beautiful. What a lovely family you have. If you are going to paint the paneling hope you won't paint it white. I love white paneling, but with all the wood you already have in there, think it might just look too light. Maybe you could paint it the same color as the doors? That French blue always looks classic, neutral and lovely. You are doing a great job, amazing that you get as much done as you do with the little ones.
Always love the banter between you and Marc! The Rumtop reminds me of what my southern aunty called "Loving Cup" made using only Georgia peaches and sugar. No alcohol was added but needed a starter cup of already fermented fruit gifted from a friend, hence the name. I don't know the alcohol % but it was pretty potent and new batches were made from starters that had been passed down for many years! Great served on pound cake and vanilla ice cream! 🥰
Amy I loved your demonstration of the Rum Pot. And thank you for sharing your knowledge of Rum. I was married in the Turks and Caicos and really have a special place for Rum. Also just picked about 3 ponds of blueberries here in Tennessee. Your dress is lovely!
I agree with Mark it is not a wood normally made to be stained unless you want a soft knotty pine look, very southern USA and beautiful but, not the rustic french cottage look. Amy I really enjoyed your recipe takes me back to making fruit cake with my grandmother around Christmas time with just that very pot.
Amy, a lovely rendition of " I'm a little teapot". Perhaps tea drinking and all its traditions & little songs weren't all encompassing in France as in England. The french seem to prefer coffee. I was glad to see you use leaf tea. Ty-phoo for me. Great explanation of Rumtopf. What a great advent to look forward to. 😘🤗
I love you showing your out takes! You are both great and Amy, I’m going to try making a rum pot. The coach house is looking very good and getting closer to being finished. The children are so very cute. xx
Lovely panelling job Marc. I agree that it if you stained the wood it would have a rather dated look, reminicent of the 70's and 80's,and we all know what that looks like today 😉
I loved the outdoor kitchen segment especially. You look lovely in your sweet dress with the beautiful backdrop--hydrangeas, I think? I'm inspired to make rumpot even though I don't even like rum. Heh heh It just sounds wonderful to have layers of summer goodness during the dreary winter.
So lovely to watch you and the children making your way down to the fruit tree. Your dress is so pretty. Then interesting to learn about making rum. Also, the wood paneling is beautiful. Marc did a splendid job. I'm canning green beans at this time. It is so satisfying to restock the pantry. Our tomatoes are finally beginning to turn red so will be making salsa and pasta sauce soon. Always something to do. It is such a treat to watch your videos, so grateful. Janice from Arkansas USA
Another great vlog! Loved watching you preserve your fruit with that traditional rum pot. What a fabulous idea! Also, the wood paneling is going to look great and I definitely agree about painting it, as Marc said…it’s not a noble wood that you’d normally stain unless in a chalet or back in the 70s 😁🕺🏻 it will far more suiting to a chateau being painted. As always…bravo! ☀️♥️💐
What a lovlely vlog☺️you looked so beautiful in your dress in front of those flowers. I love Marc’s accent☺️And the kids are adoreable❤️Looking forward to see the room finished, you are both so talentet🤗❤️
Wow , what a lot of fruit you already have! I've put up brandied fruit before, but found it difficult to use, and for some fruits, even unpalatable. The solution would have been rum! I'm sorry to have missed the stream, but I was madly finishing a quilt so it could be washed and laid out on the lawn to dry.
What a beautiful room that will be! I understand what you're saying about the basic quality of that wood, but all the knots and "eyes" and the grain! Mark did such a great job placing the pieces in a way that sprinkles the natural beauties so evenly across that wall, that I'd so hate to see it completely covered! Just my humble opinion... The preserved fruit looks delicious, will it be used in baking or for drinking? The children are adorable, and you looked lovely with your hair up and that cheery red print dress! The beautiful flowers, and the chickens snatching their goodies away from each other! Looking forward to the next one! Blessings! Mary, from WallaWalla ,Washington USA
Well done Marc you have done a great job of the panels and Amy like the idea with the fruit from around the chateau and woodland can not wait to see both completed great video x 💕🌼🌼🤗
Panels look perfect the match the top wood I think keeping the wood as natural as possible will look ideal but if you paint it maybe keep it a light colour 👏🏼👏🏼
Out take is funny...more please. The panels are going to add so much charm to the room: I like the idea of painting the panels, the room will be lovely and bright. I think I did something like your fruit preservation 50 years ago: it was called a " starter " and you passed a portion on to a friend and kept the remainder for Christmas baking. Thanks for the memory.
Oooh I like the idea of that RumPot!! I don't like rum at all, but I know a few who do! What is the Rumpot made out of? Does the fruit last well in the pot, and is it eaten separately from the rum/sugar concoction? Might just be a nice tradition to start here. The panelling looks really good, doesn't it? Marc's a clever bunny, isn't he? Lovely to see your birds helping you against the beautiful flower backdrop Amy, so funny seeing them "sharing" the fruit discards. Oh yes, and that's a very pretty dress you're wearing! Suits you well xx
We have mirabelles in Northern Germany, but they ripe much later. When I made jam from them it turned out incredibly sour. Strange phenomenon because the raw fruits were very sweet, so some chemical process made them acid when cooked. I read ( have not tried yet) that you can add a pinch of natron (Sodium bicarbonate) to neutralize the acidity and save sugar.
What a wonderful cold pantry you have! I have never heard of the fruit concoction. It looks great! Your children are growing so fast! I wish I could talk you into getting me some old documents and ledgers in french. I would pay you for it. It is difficult to find them in the USA and even on Ebay. Please pm me if you can help me out. Love your channel!
I would definitely paint the wood. if there was no lovely old wood in the room you could get away with staining but the new will never look right when compared with the old
I agree with Marc. Pine is not a noble wood. The knots are too dark and any top coat yellows over time. Paint is best. That being said, it's your castle, do what you want.
I’ve never commented on any of the RUclips Chanel’s I’ve followed.. but you two are such genuinely interesting, intelligent and such nice, good people. Love your vision, personalities and all you are doing. I hope you can continue to generously share your journey when you can.
Thank you that's really kind of you Kathy x
Oh my❣️ ...Clement running down the forest path with his basket and wearing his little red boots....a sight a Mother wants to register forever in her heart...too adorable for words...A tisket, a tasket....:)))
I love how you explain things very detailed an slow so thick people like me can understand
My mother taught us children the teapot song, wonderful memories!!
I love seeing your children! The coach house is beautiful!
What a lovely dress!
Love seeing Clement in his little red boots. An ideal childhood you and Marc have provided for your adorable children. Blessings your way.
Thanks Dolores! Those little red boots were my little red boots once upon a time in the 1980s!
How neat is that!!!☺️
It is looking very nice . The rum pot is going to be terrific for Advent ,yum ,yum,
I can’t think of a more indelicate childhood…both parents working from home, plenty of time outdoors to learn and explore, animals, wonderful food, history and humour. Thank you for all that you share!💗
Very relaxing to watch, thank you!
A great video. More of these please.
Hugely behind with watching (young children/running own business from home etc), I think this is one of my absolute favourite vlogs Amy. The mixture of family, home life, renovation and humour was perfect, and my 13 mo has also enjoyed it. p.s. your dress is amazing x
The antique scale is gorgeous!
A beautiful family in a beautiful setting. The boozy fruit looks delicious! :) xx
Fabulous dress Amy xx
I love the music you guys use! Your editing is getting so good!!!
Hello Marc, Amy, Clement and Juliet. In am late to the party but am very excited to see you all. Amy and Clement walking in the woods looked like an idyllic film to promote the countryside! You looked beautiful in your lovely dress Amy I really enjoyed your making the Rum Top , so gorgeous with the sun shining, chickens and foliage. Congratulations Marc on your super-perfect pannelling, wow it looks amazing. All so fabulous and exciting. Xxxx🤗😊😗
Lovely to see Clement and Juliette 🙂 and I loved the ending 😂
Amy, loved watching you preserve the fruit, it looks amazing,the flowers behind you are beautiful as is the Château
You have the most beautiful children! Lovely room.
Hi Amy, I have said it before but Marc & Phillip (how to renovate) should have their own show. Love their sense of humour. x
As always i love whatever you post. That rum pot was a beautiful stoneware/ ceramic vessel. The children are such sweethearts. Little Clement in his red boots was totally handsome. And Juliette is so pretty. Loved seeing all the animals and the glorious flowers and natural surroundings as you made the rum pot recipe. Hope the kiddos agree to letting you get on with the plastering next week, 😉😆. Stay well, God bless.
Juliette is so beautiful!
So lovely to see you and your lovely family again. Marc is doing a really great job on the pine panels in the coach house....it is really coming along! You look absolutely beautiful and cool in your dress....so pretty and what a great idea making the rum outside with the beautiful flowers around you. The dog with the chickens are just perfect too! Love seeing the children and Clement is having a great time walking with you collecting the fruit. I love his little red boots. Thanks again!!
I've just subscribed, but have been following you journey and all your hard work. Love your opening done in black and white. Good to see your son banging the piano. Thank You for sharing this with us.
The coach house is going to look fabulous. I can hardly wait to see the completed project. With 2 little ones, it is so impressive you are accomplishing so much! Bravo!
Fantastic and informative vlog today. Thanks for sharing. Amy, I loved your red and white dress and when you turned around with the pot, your hairstyle was beautiful. Marc, you are very talented.
best to you
So lovely! Marc is quite the craftsman. I loved watching you make the rum. So sweet and homey
Your beverage "Rumtopf" sounds really delicious! I love learning new things from other continents. The work on the carriage house looks very nice and friendly. Regarding the paneling, you can distress it to make it look old. Use a wire brush on it, put a few dents in it with a hammer, dust it with fireplace soot and then, stain it a light color wood stain. After it dries, stain it with a darker gel wood stain and immediately, rub is off.
I am enjoying catching up on old videos. I have always known the "Rumtopf" as Confiture de Gendarmes and it was done in a very large glass jar so the different fruit could be seen. We ate it at the Christmas reveillon.
That's a lovely tradition. I don't think Marc knows it - which area are you from?
Oh Amy you will make yourself ill with all this juggling with everything. Take care. 🍷🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Amy, I couldn't stoplaughing when you did your little song. Believe it or not I had to do that "Tea Pot" song when I was in 3rd grade of grammar school. By the way. I am now 76 years old and I just taught it to my 6 year old granddaughter. What fun. Love watching you and Marc in these vlogs. Can't wait for the next one. See you then.
Please tell us about your beautiful dress, Amy. Love the print!
Enjoyed learning of the rum pot, How nice, I like rum. The woodwork is beautiful, Great job Marc. How sweet was mother and son with their baskets to gather fruit, Loved it. I love your bloopers! Enjoyed today's vlog as always. God bless you all.
I love your dress!!!
Delightful
Love it
Yum!
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I so enjoyed this video loved the walkthrough the woods to pick fruit 🍎 was charming….. Blessings
Lovely. So cute watching Clemont .
I love all your videos, but particularly the outtakes at the end xx
I wonder about using cherry with pits , since they have cyanide which is really toxic to adults but especially so to little ones. Pretty much every recipe I’ve ever seen says to pit the cherries first. I don’t know , I’m no expert, but it might be good to try and find out if it’s ok? The rum pot sounds like a yummy thing to make, I can imagine it served over a cake or ice cream at Christmas would be so good. 😋. 🙋🏼♀️ When I get all steamed up hear me shout tip me over and pour me out is what we always sang to the teapot song. I should probably check that out though. 😂🤣
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🙋♀️I really look forward to your vlogs!
Agree painting the wood will look much nicer, a softer effect in a bedroom and more in keeping with the beautiful door.
Thanks Sue!
Great job with the panels. Juliet has the cutest cheeks😍 interesting cocktail you are making. Love the goofy ending 😂Thanks for sharing 😍😘
If you are looking for a more modern look, painting the panels a deep blue or green would fit in with the beautiful stone wall opposite. Marc is very clever
Your babies are absolutely beautiful. What a lovely family you have. If you are going to paint the paneling hope you won't paint it white. I love white paneling, but with all the wood you already have in there, think it might just look too light. Maybe you could paint it the same color as the doors? That French blue always looks classic, neutral and lovely. You are doing a great job, amazing that you get as much done as you do with the little ones.
Always love the banter between you and Marc! The Rumtop reminds me of what my southern aunty called "Loving Cup" made using only Georgia peaches and sugar. No alcohol was added but needed a starter cup of already fermented fruit gifted from a friend, hence the name. I don't know the alcohol % but it was pretty potent and new batches were made from starters that had been passed down for many years! Great served on pound cake and vanilla ice cream! 🥰
Fantastic job Marc x
Thank you!
Brilliant job on the wood work 🤗 The rumtopf 🤗 the children adorable 🤗🌄🍰☕🍰☕🍦🍦
Love Sue❤❤❤🇬🇧❤❤❤
Amy I loved your demonstration of the Rum Pot. And thank you for sharing your knowledge of Rum. I was married in the Turks and Caicos and really have a special place for Rum. Also just picked about 3 ponds of blueberries here in Tennessee. Your dress is lovely!
Such hard work with little wee ones! Love the paneling.
What a fantastic job he's done!! That room is looking wonderful!! I'm excited to see it all finished.!
I love all the tins of Heinz beans you have 🤣🤣🤣🥰
I wondered how many people would spot them. It’s just the tip of the iceberg Joanne…
I loved that dress on you, you looked great! So much progress, hurrah for projects coming along! I hope your Rumpot turns out well.
Thank you another informative, hilarious and musical vlog. 😍
Thanks for showing the rum pot process. Very interesting! Wainscoting looks great!
I agree with Mark it is not a wood normally made to be stained unless you want a soft knotty pine look, very southern USA and beautiful but, not the rustic french cottage look. Amy I really enjoyed your recipe takes me back to making fruit cake with my grandmother around Christmas time with just that very pot.
Just love your vlogs…laughing, learning…mmm Rumtopf, sounds not unlike Confiture de Vieux Garçons? Glorious 😘😘
My grandparents had pine paneling in their kitchen which they sealed with clear shellac.
Amy, a lovely rendition of " I'm a little teapot". Perhaps tea drinking and all its traditions & little songs weren't all encompassing in France as in England. The french seem to prefer coffee. I was glad to see you use leaf tea. Ty-phoo for me. Great explanation of Rumtopf. What a great advent to look forward to. 😘🤗
Many in Canada use their Rumpots, too!
Wow love the wood paneling, Marc really is a wonderful handy man/craftsman
I love you showing your out takes! You are both great and Amy, I’m going to try making a rum pot. The coach house is looking very good and getting closer to being finished. The children are so very cute. xx
Your dress💜💜💜
Wow I so love the paneling excellent
Lovely panelling job Marc. I agree that it if you stained the wood it would have a rather dated look, reminicent of the 70's and 80's,and we all know what that looks like today 😉
Your chickens are so funny 😂, they were definitely after stealing the show. Great video, I love your dress too x
I loved the outdoor kitchen segment especially. You look lovely in your sweet dress with the beautiful backdrop--hydrangeas, I think? I'm inspired to make rumpot even though I don't even like rum. Heh heh It just sounds wonderful to have layers of summer goodness during the dreary winter.
Everything looks so so good🥰🇨🇦 I do a lot of preserving/ canning etc. and I just have to try that way of preserving fruit. I bet it tastes amazing.
Half expected to see Jacque Tati!
♥️ I’m a little teapot. 😁♥️
My favourite song as a child!
It is coming along nicely!
So lovely to watch you and the children making your way down to the fruit tree. Your dress is so pretty. Then interesting to learn about making rum. Also, the wood paneling is beautiful. Marc did a splendid job. I'm canning green beans at this time. It is so satisfying to restock the pantry. Our tomatoes are finally beginning to turn red so will be making salsa and pasta sauce soon. Always something to do. It is such a treat to watch your videos, so grateful. Janice from Arkansas USA
Another great vlog! Loved watching you preserve your fruit with that traditional rum pot. What a fabulous idea!
Also, the wood paneling is going to look great and I definitely agree about painting it, as Marc said…it’s not a noble wood that you’d normally stain unless in a chalet or back in the 70s 😁🕺🏻 it will far more suiting to a chateau being painted. As always…bravo! ☀️♥️💐
What a lovlely vlog☺️you looked so beautiful in your dress in front of those flowers. I love Marc’s accent☺️And the kids are adoreable❤️Looking forward to see the room finished, you are both so talentet🤗❤️
Wow , what a lot of fruit you already have! I've put up brandied fruit before, but found it difficult to use, and for some fruits, even unpalatable. The solution would have been rum! I'm sorry to have missed the stream, but I was madly finishing a quilt so it could be washed and laid out on the lawn to dry.
What a beautiful room that will be! I understand what you're saying about the basic quality of that wood, but all the knots and "eyes" and the grain! Mark did such a great job placing the pieces in a way that sprinkles the natural beauties so evenly across that wall, that I'd so hate to see it completely covered!
Just my humble opinion...
The preserved fruit looks delicious, will it be used in baking or for drinking? The children are adorable, and you looked lovely with your hair up and that cheery red print dress! The beautiful flowers, and the chickens snatching their goodies away from each other! Looking forward to the next one! Blessings!
Mary, from WallaWalla ,Washington USA
Well done Marc you have done a great job of the panels and Amy like the idea with the fruit from around the chateau and woodland can not wait to see both completed great video x 💕🌼🌼🤗
Brilliant video!
Panels look perfect the match the top wood I think keeping the wood as natural as possible will look ideal but if you paint it maybe keep it a light colour 👏🏼👏🏼
I enjoyed the video very much. I look forward to see hoe the fruit turns out. Love from Vermont
Out take is funny...more please. The panels are going to add so much charm to the room: I like the idea of painting the panels, the room will be lovely and bright. I think I did something like your fruit preservation 50 years ago: it was called a " starter " and you passed a portion on to a friend and kept the remainder for Christmas baking. Thanks for the memory.
Oooh I like the idea of that RumPot!! I don't like rum at all, but I know a few who do! What is the Rumpot made out of? Does the fruit last well in the pot, and is it eaten separately from the rum/sugar concoction? Might just be a nice tradition to start here. The panelling looks really good, doesn't it? Marc's a clever bunny, isn't he? Lovely to see your birds helping you against the beautiful flower backdrop Amy, so funny seeing them "sharing" the fruit discards. Oh yes, and that's a very pretty dress you're wearing! Suits you well xx
I may have to try the rumtopf. Sounds amazing.
In France I learned to preserve fruit this way. There it's known as 'confiture de vieux homme""--old man's jam!
I like that!
We have mirabelles in Northern Germany, but they ripe much later. When I made jam from them it turned out incredibly sour. Strange phenomenon because the raw fruits were very sweet, so some chemical process made them acid when cooked. I read ( have not tried yet) that you can add a pinch of natron (Sodium bicarbonate) to neutralize the acidity and save sugar.
Progress! Yes, paint the wood. It’s not precious. You’ll be able to keep it clean (children) too!
So true!
The difference between Marc and Phillip is that Mark is skilled in many things and Phillip although a lovely man seams to meet up everything. Michele.
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I would stain it in a light beige/grey color. It would be pretty either way, but that was my first thought.
I have to say I’m tilting towards grey Heidi!
What a wonderful cold pantry you have! I have never heard of the fruit concoction. It looks great! Your children are growing so fast! I wish I could talk you into getting me some old documents and ledgers in french. I would pay you for it. It is difficult to find them in the USA and even on Ebay. Please pm me if you can help me out. Love your channel!
Don’t paint the wood……stain it, it is so lovely. It’s nice. Don’t stain it. Use a lighter stain….or oil.
Don’t paint it….don’t.
I would definitely paint the wood. if there was no lovely old wood in the room you could get away with staining but the new will never look right when compared with the old
I think you're absolutely right!
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Love watching your videos Amy. What happened to your yoga area and building that we saw in Chateau DIY on television? Do you use it for anything now?
Thanks Susan! That area is still patiently waiting to be finished and for the rest of the retreat centre to be finished!
Shaz says, paint in antique rose
I agree with Marc. Pine is not a noble wood. The knots are too dark and any top coat yellows over time. Paint is best. That being said, it's your castle, do what you want.
How about a white wash type of stain it'll let the grain show through.